potential

Potential quotes

Potential

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Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

- Vidal, Gore

2.

For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.

- Shakespeare, William

3.

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

- Peter Ustinov

4.

Joy comes from using your potential.

- Schultz, Will

5.

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

- Santayana, George

6.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

- Huxley, Aldous

7.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

- Maya Angelou

8.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

- James, William

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In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God.

- James Agee

10.

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.

- Norman, Greg

11.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

- Leo Buscaglia

12.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

13.

Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player. Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you'll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player.

- Norman, Greg

14.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources -- to do something about them.

- Ford, Henry

15.

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

- Ford, Henry

16.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

- Socrates

17.

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

- Tracy, Brian

18.

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

- Rabbi Harold Kushner

19.

Knowledge is only potential power.

- Hill, Napoleon

20.

We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable.